Description
drawings in watercolour on vellum panels (100 x 142 mm) mounted on album leaves (approx 270 x 210 mm), these leaves with double gilt ruled borders and with tissue guards (some guards with pencil tracing on them), 1 of the vellum panels lifting slightly from its mount, other blank leaves, the texts written in a scrawling hand (typical of the period), presumably Retzsch's, oblong 4to, contemporary presentation vellum, elaborate gilt tooled borders on sides, initials C. R. in gilt at the centre of the upper cover, spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles, pale blue watered silk doublures and facing end-paper (bookplate removed), gilt edges, slightly warped, in its original velvet lined purple straight-grained morocco folding box, the velvet browned, some wear and abrasions to box, the catch not catching
